Turing chemotactic instability in an HIV model
A ternary reaction-diffusion model for early HIV infection dynamics, incorporating logistic growth of target cells, is introduced. According to in vitro and in vivo studies, random movement of target cells, infected cells, and virions and a chemotactic attraction of target cells by cytokines, are included. The research explores the existence of disease-free and coexistence equilibria, conducting linear stability analyses for homogeneous and heterogeneous scenarios. Specifically, conditions for chemotactic-self diffusion instability of the endemic equilibrium are found, indicating that Turing patterns may emerge when the chemotactic effect surpasses a critical threshold. This threshold is lower than in models without logistic growth of target cells, suggesting that the logistic model provides better insights into infection hot spots in the early stages. The location and shape of these patterns, crucial for developing infection control strategies, are investigated using weakly nonlinear analysis and demonstrated through numerical simulations.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Tasks
modelMethods 이 논문이 사용한 방법론
Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Chemotaxis-Driven Instabilities Govern Size, Shape and Migration Efficiency of Multicellular Clusters
The collective chemotaxis of multicellular clusters is an important phenomenon in various physiological contexts, ranging from embryonic development to cancer metastasis. Such clusters often display interesting shape dyn…
Pattern formation within phenotype-structured chemotactic populations
Populations can become spatially organised through chemotaxis autoattraction, wherein population members release their own chemoattractant. Standard models of this process usually assume phenotypic homogeneity, but recen…
SensitivityTrade-offs between chemotaxis and proliferation shape the phenotypic structuring of invading waves
Chemotaxis-driven invasions have been proposed across a broad spectrum of biological processes, from cancer to ecology. The influential system of equations introduced by Keller and Segel has proven a popular choice in th…
Effect of receptor clustering on chemotactic performance of Escherichia coli: sensing versus adaptation
We show how the competition between sensing and adaptation can result in a performance peak in E.coli chemotaxis using extensive numerical simulations in a detailed theoretical model. Receptor clustering amplifies the in…
ClusteringPrinciples of efficient chemotactic pursuit
In chemotaxis, cells are modulating their migration patterns in response to concentration gradients of a guiding substance. Immune cells are believed to use such chemotactic sensing for remotely detecting and homing in o…